//…The way your sweet smell
lingers when you leave a room,
Stories you tell as we lay
in bed all afternoon.
I dreamed you now every night
in my mind is where we meet.
and when I’m awake
staring at pictures of you asleep…//

in 2 days I will be departing

and the coldness in my heart

has started to defrost

how will we handle this seperation

who will be the warmth

when my anemic body is freezing

shielding me with your body

to keep me from getting cold

in 2 days my body will be on the Gulf

but a piece of me will be on the East

how do we gently seperate

from this chaotic attachment

and not know what’s next to come

if we’ll ever reunite 

but as we go from here

my face free from tears

in 2 days I’l be on the Gulf

but a piece of me will be left on the East.

-jpvb